Life Study-25
by Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Title
Life Study-25
Artist
Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
LIFE STUDY-25, DIGITAL ART, LION AND THE MOUSE
In the oldest versions, a lion threatens a mouse that wakes him up. The mouse begs forgiveness and makes the point that such unworthy prey would bring the lion no honour. The lion then agrees and sets the mouse free. Later, the lion is netted by hunters; hearing it roaring, the mouse remembers its clemency and frees it by gnawing through the ropes. The moral of the story is that mercy brings its reward and that there is no being so small that it cannot help a greater. Later English versions reinforce this by having the mouse promise to return the lion's favor, to its sceptical amusement.
The Scottish poet, Robert Henryson, in a version he included in his Morall Fabillis[1] in the 1480s, expands the plea that the mouse makes and introduces serious themes of law, justice and politics. The poem consists of 43 seven-lined stanzas of which the first twelve recount a meeting with Aesop in a dream and six stanzas at the end draw the moral; the expanded fable itself occupies stanzas 13-36. A political lesson of a different kind occurs in Francis Barlow's 1687 edition of the fables. There the poet Aphra Behn comments that no form of service is to be despised, for just as the humble mouse had aided the king of the beasts, so 'An Oak did once a glorious Monarch save' by serving as a hiding place when King Charles II was escaping after the battle of Worcester.[2]
The 16th century French poet Cl�ment Marot also recounts an expanded version of the fable in the course of his �pitre � son ami Lyon Jamet (Letter to his friend Lyon Jamet), first published in 1534.[3] This is an imitation of the Latin poet Horace's Epistles, addressed to friends and often applying Aesopian themes to their situations. In this case, Marot has been imprisoned and begs Jamet to help him get released, playing on his friend's forename and styling himself the lowly rat (rather than mouse). La Fontaine's Fables included a more succinct version of the story (II.11) in the following century.[4]
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Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Antonis,Thank you so much for your lovely comments,end i appreciate your visit.
Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Felix,Thank you so much for your lovely comments,end i appreciate your visit and L/F
Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Constance, thank you so much for your lovely comments .I appreciate your visit and L/F
Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Collin, thank you so much for your lovely comments .I appreciate your visit .
Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Bob, thank you so much for your lovely comments .I appreciate your visit and V/F.
Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Kathi ,thank you so much ,for your lovely comments .I appreciate your visit and V/F
Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Phyllis,many many thanks for your wonderful comments and i appreciate you visit .
Phyllis Kaltenbach
Love the various versions of the fables and your "Life Study - 25". Good does bring good.
Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Thank you so much,Anne Elizabeth ,and Lianne,for your kind comments,and l/f.
Lianne Schneider
I love the strong bold colors in your work Anand and the whimsical style of this painting. F/L T